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THE SECRET HISTORY OF ATRALIA'S GAY DIGGERS

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The Secret History of Atralia's Gay Diggers. On Anzac Day, 1982, five gay men walked up to the Shre of Remembrance Melbourne. They were om the Gay Ex-Servic Associatn, and they rried a wreath dited to ‘all brothers and sisters who died durg the wars’—but they would never get to lay at the shre.

“I don’t know where all the gays and poofters have e om, ” he was later famoly quoted as sayg, “I don’t remember a sgle one om World War Two.

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“There were thoands of ex-servicemen who were mp, I thk I went through 300 of them myself, ” he told the magaze, a py of which is prerved by the Atralian Lbian and Gay Archiv. When one man harassed Smh about beg gay, a iend remd him that Pkie was a three-time featherweight boxg champn. "We had s of homosexuals really fallg love.

In the terts of general happs we re-arranged some room occupants and eventually got all the homos one block, " he said.

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“A quarter of homosexual s Queensland crimal urts across the war volved airmen, seamen, pilots or others the ary, ” he says. While Atralia’s official ban on gay and lbian service was repealed 1992, LGBT+ soldiers served long before then.

“There n be ltle doubt there were gay soldiers [... Before repeal, the Atralian Defence Force policy was to remove gay men “sympathetilly and wh discretn”. But right back to Atralia's early years, Smaal says was easy for gay men to jo the armed forc.

“The irony, of urse, was that they end up an all-male environment wh limed opportuny for female pany – the potential for homo-sex had never been greater, ” Smaal says. Sometim was latent homosexualy, sometim otherwise ‘straight’ men found themselv havg sex wh other men.

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